latest-news

Latest News

Independent TD Mattie McGrath has welcomed the growing support he is receiving from members of both the Dáil and Seanad for introducing a Private Members Bill (PMB) which seeks to regulate against the continued use of the phrase ‘incompatible with life.’
Deputy McGrath ...

Parents from the support group Every Life Counts have launched a powerful initiative to end the phrase 'incompatible with life'. The campaign was launched in both Dublin and Belfast by families who say the phrase is 'misleading and offensive' and dehumanises children with profound ...

When Chile moved to totally ban abortion in 1989, abortion campaigners insisted that illegal abortion rates would climb and harm caused to women from the same would also increase. But deaths from illegal abortion plummeted after the ban, and Chile has become a leader in maternal healthcare with ...

Last week, Newstalk Radio ran an three-day campaign seeking to change the law to allow for abortion in cases where children have a profound disability, dubbed a 'fatal foetal abnormality' by Irish commentators, even though the conditions are not always fatal.

The final report into the death of Savita Halappanavar has found that there was a failure to provide basic elements of patient care, and that Savita's life could have been saved if missed opportunities had been acted upon.